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12-letter words containing g, e, r, t, u

  • glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
  • glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
  • go the route — If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
  • goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
  • golden trout — a very colorful freshwater fish, Salmo aguabonita or Oncorhynchus aguabonita, of the salmon family, native to the Sierra Nevada, having a red and orange body and golden sides.
  • good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
  • gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • grandaughter — Alternative spelling of granddaughter.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
  • great laurel — a tall shrub, Rhododendron maximum, of eastern North America, having rose-pink flowers.
  • great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
  • great sunday — Easter Sunday.
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • greek yogurt — a thick, creamy, protein-rich yogurt made by removing most of the liquid whey, as by centrifuge or straining.
  • green turtle — a sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, common in tropical and subtropical seas, the flesh of which is used for turtle soup: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
  • grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
  • grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
  • grotesquerie — Grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively.
  • ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
  • ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • groundsheets — Plural form of groundsheet.
  • groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • guaranteeing — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
  • guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
  • gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
  • gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
  • guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
  • gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
  • gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
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